What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

The most useful is the greatest.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Humanity is the sin of God